The Boondock Saints (1999) Movie Overview

$219,529 (International theatre) The Boondock Saints is a 1999 crime thriller film written and directed by Troy Duffy. The film stars Sean Patrick Flanery and Norman Reedus as Catholic Irish American fraternal twins, Conner and Murphy MacManus, who become vigilantes after killing two members of the Russian Mafia in self-defense. After a “message from God”, the brothers, together with their friend David Della Rocco, set out to rid their home city of Boston, Massachusetts of crime and evil; all the while being pursued by Special Agent Paul Smecker (Willem Dafoe). Duffy indicates that the screenplay was inspired by personal experience, while living in Los Angeles. The film experienced a limited theatrical release of only five theaters for one week, and was met with poor critical reviews; but the film has grossed about $50 million in domestic video sales. It proved divisive among viewers, ultimately developing both a large cult following as well as enmity from viewers and critics who have called it a film undeserving of cult status. The ending credit sequence, which features the media asking the people of Boston, “Are the ’saints’ good or evil?”, was shot by Mark Brian Smith, co-direc… Source

• The Boondock Saints Movie Details
• Director: Troy Duffy
• Official Sites: Official Fansite, Official site, MySpace site
• Tagline: Brothers. Killers. Saints.
• Country: Canada , USA
• Run Time: 110 min | South Korea:102 min (cut)
• Genre: Action , Crime , Drama , Thriller

• Cast Overview
• Willem Dafoe as Paul Smecker
• Sean Patrick Flanery as Conner MacManus
• Norman Reedus as Murphy MacManus
• David Della Rocco as David Della 'Roc / Funny Man' Rocco
• Billy Connolly as Il Duce
• David Ferry as Detective Dolly

The Boondock Saints Movie Review from New York Times

In 1999 you could explain Troy Duffy’s “Boondock Saints” as a cheeseball riff on “Reservoir Dogs” and “True Romance” — Quentin Tarantino meets Wayne and Garth. How to explain, a decade later, his “Boondock Saints II: All Saints Day”? Apparently the world has been waiting for another cartoonishly violent, broadly comic Boston Iri… Source

The Boondock Saints Movie Details from Imdb

Two Irish brothers accidentally killed mafia thugs. They turned themselves in and were released as heroes. They then see it as a calling by God and started knocking off mafia gang members one by one. Willem Dafoe plays the detective trying to figure out the killings, but the closer he was to catching the Irish brothers, the more he thinks the broth… Source